The claim commit e31de61 was hand-made after the board (gate still off)
had already moved the file on disk: it added the in-progress copy but
missed staging the backlog deletion. Nothing was lost — same content,
both paths, now one.
Rank rides in the card header so every reorder is a single-file write
that merges one card at a time — the shape the directory-is-truth law
and task 19's sync model both demand. Sparse integer ranks, midpoint
drops, one sanctioned multi-file renumber when gaps exhaust.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
First field bug of v0.1-alpha: install.py was committed 100644, so
every install shipped it permission-denied for direct ./install.py use
(start.sh's python3 invocation masked it). Exec bit set on all four
shebang'd files (install.py, board.py, hook_settings.py,
permission_config.py) and install.py added to update.sh's post-update
chmod line so already-broken installs heal on their next update. The
artifact-side invariant test — every shipped #! file executable — is
card 21.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
From the 2026-07-30 design discussion: origin/main becomes the truth
and every checkout a replica. 18 makes moving a card claim it (assignee
written and committed atomically); 19 pushes board moves and pulls on a
beat, with git as the lock server and take-over toasts for lost races;
20 keeps side effects on the actor's board only, gates launches on
claims, and routes team-mode merges through origin. All gated off by
default; single-player bench is untouched until opted in.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The first full cycle closes: all seventeen cards from two days of
self-hosted dogfooding are done, and the earlier done pile moved to
tasks/archive/ — out of every column, never deleted. The board starts
its next cycle empty.
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AGENTS.md is the cross-vendor name (opencode, Codex, Gemini CLI read it
natively; so does current Claude Code), and the brief goes to every
vendor's agents — an opencode work agent previously launched with no
project brief at all. The content moves verbatim to AGENTS.md at the
root and in manager/local/; each CLAUDE.md becomes a load-bearing
compatibility pointer (@AGENTS.md import) for older Claude Code CLIs.
update.sh's core-owned file list now carries both names, so updating an
old-layout install lands AGENTS.md and replaces the full CLAUDE.md with
the pointer instead of resurrecting it. All four core prompts, README,
the board.py/taskfiles.py docstrings, the task template and the adapter
contract docs now name AGENTS.md; adapters/README.md notes that vendors
reading AGENTS.md from the working tree need no adapter work.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CLAUDE.md and the task template recited pytest / lint-imports /
frontend as *the* definition of done in core-owned text; both now say
'the project's configured checks' and point at the checks file. Bench's
own local/CLAUDE.md records that its definition of done is the stdlib
suite, kept in the checks file beside it.
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Written and then brought into line with the enriched template task 07
shipped — affected-areas line, out-of-scope bullets, a Given/When/Then
edge case for the update.sh round-trip, and a Risks note naming the
pointer file's import as load-bearing for older CLIs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Twelve task cards from the first self-hosted dogfooding sessions: 02,
05, 06, 07 done; 08 in review; 09 queued; the rest in backlog. Review
launches no longer pass the retired MultiEdit tool name as a deny rule
(it killed every review/relevance launch at flag parsing — task 10
keeps the follow-up test work). Gitignore .worktrees/ and personal
.claude/settings.local.json; commit the portable .claude/settings.json
that task 02's wiring fix now generates.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Merge the highest-value slots from a fuller development-task template
into bench's lean one: an optional Depends on header line, an Affected
areas line in Context, Out of scope bullets in What to build, edge-case
and Given/When/Then guidance in Acceptance, and a Risks slot in Notes.
Each slot says who consumes it and is marked deletable — empty
boilerplate is worse than absence.
The load-bearing contracts are unchanged: exact Status values, the Open
questions heading the NOT READY gate keys off, Acceptance as the review
target, and the template staying off the board. Organisation process
(staging, sign-offs, approvals, contacts) is deliberately absent; a new
contract test pins both the gained slots and what must not grow back.
CLAUDE.md's Task file format section documents the Depends on line.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Everything core from cicero-pas's .task-manager, with instance data
reduced to skeleton: empty stage directories, the task template, empty
local/ scaffolding, and a README covering install (clone into
.task-manager/, vendored on purpose) and update (update.sh replaces core
wholesale; local/ and tasks/ survive).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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